Field Study by Rachel Seiffert
Rachel Seiffert, author of The Dark Room, powerfully evokes our need for human connection in this brilliant and haunting group of stories. From the title piece, in which a young biologist conceals his discoveries at a polluted river from a local woman, to the family aided by an enemy in 'The Crossing', to the old man weighing his regrets in 'Francis John Jones, 1924 -' Seiffert's acclaimed, refined prose movingly captures the lives of her characters in their most essential, secret moments. A Rocky Mountain News Best Book of the Year.
A magnificent collection: striking, moving, and deeply thought-provoking * Financial Times *
Seiffert is a writer of great delicacy and toughness..good story begetting good story after good story * Guardian *
It is extraordinary to experience these fictions... Not even the achievement of The Dark Room, its maturity and courage, will quite prepare the reader for the subtle art at work throughout these stories * Irish Times *
Vivid, just and heartfelt * Daily Telegraph *
'The Crossing' has all the leanness of Hemingway's short fiction... In Seiffert's hands, the tale becomes a tense parable set at the dangerous intersection of trust, desperation and xenophobia * New York Times Book Review *
Seiffert is a writer of great delicacy and toughness..good story begetting good story after good story * Guardian *
It is extraordinary to experience these fictions... Not even the achievement of The Dark Room, its maturity and courage, will quite prepare the reader for the subtle art at work throughout these stories * Irish Times *
Vivid, just and heartfelt * Daily Telegraph *
'The Crossing' has all the leanness of Hemingway's short fiction... In Seiffert's hands, the tale becomes a tense parable set at the dangerous intersection of trust, desperation and xenophobia * New York Times Book Review *
The daughter of an Australian father and a German mother, Rachel Seiffert was born in Oxford and lives in London. She is the author the Booker-shortlisted novel The Dark Room - which won a Betty Trask Award and the Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction - and the novel Afterwards. She was named one of Granta's 'Best of Young British' and one of 25 women writers to watch in the 'Orange Futures' promotion.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099461784 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099461781 |
| Title | Field Study |
| Author | Rachel Seiffert |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2005-03-03 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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